He will be assisted by Sander van Rukel and Erwin Zeinstra, with VAR operated by Paul van Buckel. The fourth official is Serdar Gezubyuk.

Bjorn Kuipers has had four matches with Zenit in his career in February 2009 when Zenit beat Stuttgart 2-1 at the Petrovsky in the UEFA Cup, in August 2011 when we beat Auxerre 1-0 at home in the Champions League, in February 2013 when we lost 3-1 away to Liverpool in the Europa League and a 2-0 home loss to Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League in October 2014.

The match with Borussia Dortmund will take place in Germany on Wednesday 28 October at 11pm St. Petersburg time.